Sick prisoner Ahmed Damoni refuses to take medication

GAZA, (PIC)– A Palestinian prisoner in Israeli occupation jails, Ahmed Damoni, has been refusing to take his medication for the past five days in protest at the prison administration’s policy of deliberate medical neglect.

Mohammed, Ahmed’s brother, told Quds Press on Monday that the lawyer told them of his brother’s refusal to take medicine for the past five days.

He said that his brother’s step was in protest at the Israeli prison administration’s deliberate medical neglect of sick prisoners.

He said that his brother had undergone cardiac catheterization three years ago in Soroka hospital, adding that the doctor told him that he has to undergo yearly medical checkup, but the prison administration refused to allow him do that.

The brother underlined that Ahmed’s medicines were nothing more than sedatives that did not cope with his type of ailment.

Ahmed Damoni, from Breij refugee camp in central Gaza, was sentenced to life in jail for participating in the killing of a Jewish settler in Gaza Strip in 1990.